In 2007, supported by an extraordinary team of family, friends, and medical staff, I stomped the snot out of a nasty cancer that was on its way to killing me. I've since learned that the way I did it has a lot in common with the advice of the "e-patients" movement, so I've changed my blogger name from Patient Dave to e-Patient Dave.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

This past week I attended the big annual convention of HIMSS, the Health Information Management Systems Society, in Atlanta. While there I was buttonholed by the famous Dr. Val Jones of Get Better Health to come talk on their live video stream. It's a fun thing - all you need is a webcam, and you can broadcast like this!

We talked a little about the show and then got into some (unexpectedly) sincere talk about what e-patient is and isn't, what participatory medicine is about, etc.